Jewish figures criticise ‘stigmatising’ Tory attack on Starmer family time
Posted by RaskolnikovX on July 3, 2024, 6:19 am
I notice this article has been toned down since I first saw it last night. Then it was blaring "accusations of anti-semitism" in the headline. Oddly this doesn't show up in News Sniffer.
Anyway, apart from the absurdity of complaining about Friday evening being anti-semitic, it's interesting to see his lobby mates and all the usual suspects leaping to his defence. Clearly they know where their bread is butteredand tells you all you need to know about who he's working for.
Keir Starmer has accused the Conservatives of desperate tactics amid claims that Tory criticism of his defence of family time was insensitive and had antisemitic undertones. ... However, it has sparked an angry backlash, with senior Jewish figures saying the decision to target such a culturally significant time of the week – Starmer’s wife, Victoria, comes from a Jewish family – was ill-judged and deeply unfair.
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Marie van der Zyl, who was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews until earlier this year, called the attacks “horribly stigmatising”.
“For Jews of all denominations and their loves ones it’s really a sacred time and I think we should be recognising that here is someone who appreciates values and traditions,” said Van der Zyl, who has recently become a Labour party member.
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John Mann, a former Labour MP and now peer, who is the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, called the Conservative attacks “dangerous”, noting that parliament did not sit on Sundays due to Christian traditions.
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Writing in the Jewish Chronicle, the paper’s former editor Stephen Pollard called the Conservative line of attack “puerile, pathetic and degrading for everyone involved”.
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
on July 3, 2024, 6:19 am